The Telegraph writes that the tiny Mediterranean nation of Montenegro was the setting for the lavish 40th birthday celebrations of financier Nat Rothschild.
The vista is quintessentially Mediterranean – a shimmering blue bay and craggy limestone mountains framed by the swaying fronds of palm trees.
But a picturesque corner of Montenegro was turned into Chelsea-on-Sea this weekend when Eton- and Oxford-educated Nat Rothschild, the billionaire scion of the world’s most famous banking dynasty, celebrated his 40th birthday with three days of lavish entertainment.
The £1 million party kicked off on Friday night, when 400 of his friends attended an event billed as a “Disco Soiree” around a newly-built, 215ft-long infinity pool in Porto Montenegro, a marina development which is intended to put this tiny Balkan country on the map for the world’s super-yacht owners.
The cost was no problem for the former Bullingdon Club member – his fortune was estimated earlier this year to have exceeded £1 billion, partly due to the soaring price of commodities in which he has invested. It has been speculated that a string of savvy business ventures could make him the richest Rothschild of them all.
Long-legged young British women in short skirts and high heels unfolded from a cavalcade of sleek black Audis and Mercedes, bringing a touch of the King’s Road to a jewel of the Balkans that during its heyday in the 1960s was the playground of Princess Margaret, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
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